..."woodwork painted in October looks better at the end of four years, than if painted in June it would at the end of two"...
-On Painting Houses, Scientific American 12, 1854
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Text block reading: That style of language which society pronounces vulgar, and which grammarians call impure, arises less from the use of new and unauthorized words, than from the employment of old words in the wrong senses. For example, the word 'guess', when properly applied, is a good English word; it becomes vulgar only in its misappropriation. Use ita hundred times a-day in its right sense, and you are a genteman; use it once improperly, and you declare yourself a Yankee.
~ The Handbook of the Man of Fashion, by the author of “Etiquette for Gentlemen”, 1847
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(Yankee: an American or specifically an American from the North)
~ Martine's Hand-Book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness, by Arthur Martine, 1866
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